Euripides Rhesus 747

Editions (1)

Ῥῆσος Perseus (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. III. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913. (Reprinted 1920-1978)) — 747 focus

Ἡνίοχος

ἔρρει στρατιά, πέπτωκεν ἄναξ

δολίῳ πληγῇ.

ἆ ἆ ἆ ἆ,

οἵα μʼ ὀδύνη τείρει φονίου

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τραύματος εἴσω. πῶς ἂν ὀλοίμην;

χρῆν γάρ μʼ ἀκλεῶς Ῥῆσόν τε θανεῖν,

Τροίᾳ κέλσαντʼ ἐπίκουρον;

Translations (2)

Rhesus Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 747 focus

Charioteer

Lost is all our army, our prince is dead, slain by a treacherous blow. Oh! Oh!

The cruel anguish of this bloody wound that racks my frame within! Would I were dead! Was it to die this inglorious death that Rhesus and I came bringing aid to Troy ?

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Rhesus (OCR draft) Experimental (Rhesus. Robert Potter's English verse translation, first published in 1781–1783; text from the 1808 Oxford printing.)

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